Andrea Zittel/Panelshop

Panelshop
...Andrea Zittel's latest enterprise, 'Panelshop', an artist collective making products for an ongoing series of "pop-up" experiments in galleries, stores, and non-profit venues across North America. The Panelshop project succeeds Smockshop, a similar endeavor in which artists produced more than 300 simple garments, as reinterpretations of Zittel's original design...
March 12 - April 2, 2011
Monte Vista Projects

Interactive Lecture Series by OJO @ MOCA LA

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Interactive Lecture Series by OJO: #3 Science Fictions
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OJO Founded in 2005 by visual artists Joshua Aster, Justin Cole, Eamon Ore-Giron, Chris Avitabile, Moises Medina, and Brenna Youngblood, OJO is formed around a mutual interest in experimenting with acoustic guitars, electronics, musical spontaneity, freeform improvisation, and the boundaries between audience and performer. The group uses a wide range of instruments—drum machines, basses, guitars, synthesizers, salt, cars—as well as their own bodies and those of their audience, clapping, chanting, stomping, and singing to generate sprawling improvisations.
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MOCA LA

GetRidOfWhiteWalls Collective

GetRidOfWhiteWalls Collective / g.r.o.w.
About:
WHO WE ARE::: We are a group of four women with a shared vision of engaging unusual sites within the city that could be used in ways never-before imagined. We are architects, filmmakers, photographers, painters, performers, and media landscapers—each with a specific eye, all in collaboration—pushing for progress and change.
WHAT WE DO::: Get Rid of White Walls Collective is focused on bringing fine art out of galleries and into non-traditional spaces: public, domestic, industrial, nautical, etc. These events are meant to reveal the unique identity of these sites to the surrounding public, offering a place of public interaction via the provocation of the urban landscape... MORE INFO

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and some more things in the area...


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CUM COLLECTIVE @ Kinsey DesForges: Openings Part 4

PR//Kinsey Desforges Gallery:

This collective's provocative installations provide a glimpse into one of Europe's most in-your-face contemporary art projects that examines explicit imagery - often porn-styled depictions on women - with a raw punk sensibility. Hyper-modified visuals and catchy slogans highlight hypocrisies evident in societies' response to sex and sexual imagery and the way women, in particular, are portrayed in the media.

While originally designed for the streets, (they began working together in 2001 after attending the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent), the project eventually evolved into a series of studio works that nevertheless maintain the chaos and rawness of an urban atmosphere. This contextual shift allowed Cum's work to take on a spectrum of new interpretations within the gallery space.
Cum live and work in Ghent, Belgium, and have shown in Europe and throughout the U.S. They are currently teaching as a collective at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent.

I had a feeling that this show oozed either NY or Euro blood. How come the LEAN hasn't fully caught on and bred in the west yet?- it's practically over-and-done in the other world direction.

UPDATE: looks like the Flog encountered some gangsta leaners too.

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